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Module 2 - Issues On Human Development

1. The document discusses issues relating to human development, including the influence of nature vs nurture, continuity vs discontinuity, and stability vs change. 2. It presents activities that ask the reader to consider which has a more significant influence on development - nature or nurture. It also asks if development is like a seedling becoming a tree (continuity) or a caterpillar becoming a butterfly (discontinuity). 3. The document analyzes these positions and asks the reader where they stand on these issues. It also presents an article and asks the reader to analyze whether it supports the factors that shape human development.

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Module 2 - Issues On Human Development

1. The document discusses issues relating to human development, including the influence of nature vs nurture, continuity vs discontinuity, and stability vs change. 2. It presents activities that ask the reader to consider which has a more significant influence on development - nature or nurture. It also asks if development is like a seedling becoming a tree (continuity) or a caterpillar becoming a butterfly (discontinuity). 3. The document analyzes these positions and asks the reader where they stand on these issues. It also presents an article and asks the reader to analyze whether it supports the factors that shape human development.

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Name:_____________________________________________________ Date:__________

Year & Course: ___________________________________________

LESSON 4: ISSUES ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

ACTIVITY

1. Which has a more significant influence on human development? Nature or nurture??

2. Is our development like that of a seedling gradually growing into an acacia tree? Or is
it more like that of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly?
3. Is development best described as involving stability or as involving change? Are we
what our first experiences have made of us or do we develop into someone different
from who we were at an earlier point in development?

ANALYSIS

1. Are you pro-nature or pro-nurture? Are there additional reasons you can give in
favor of nature/nature? Who are neither for nature nor nurture? Why?
2. Are you for continuity or discontinuity? Can you give additional arguments that
defend continuity/discontinuity? Are you in between continuity and discontinuity?
Why?

3. Do you think stability is more correct than change or change is more correct than
stability?
APPLICATION

1. Here is an interesting article title “How the First Nine Months Shape the Rest of Your
Life” from the October 4, 2010 Issue of Time Magazine. Read, analyze then answer the
following questions:

a. Does the article agree that heredity, environment and individual’s choice are the
factors that contribute to what a person may become? Read that paragraph that tells
so.

b. Read the 4th paragraph again. Focus your attention on the highlighted word,
PERMANENTLY. Relate this to the issue on stability versus change. Does the word
PERMANENTLY convince you that we are what our first experiences have made of
us (stability)? Explain your answer.
BIG IDEAS

Complete the sentence.

With regard to the nurture-nature, continuity-discontinuity and change-stability


controversies, the wiser stand is

RESEARCH

1. Read the published book The Nurture Assumption by Judith Harris (1998).
2. State in not more than 2 paragraphs the thesis of Judith Harris book.
3. a. Watch “Lonely Only” in your YouTube. Only Children: Debunking the Myths
about Single Children.
b. In 1896, Granville Stanley Hall described only children as “deficient on the
social side”, “petted”, “humored”, “indulged”, and “spoiled”. Today, many consider
this a MYTH-WHAT DO YOU THINK?

4. For related articles, refer to TIME Magazine, July 19, 2010 issue. State in not more
than 10 sentences the position expressed in the YouTube and in the Time Magazine.
REFLECTIONS

Relate what you learned here to your personal development. Reflect on your own personal
development. What has helped you become the person that you are now? Is what you have
become a product of the mere interaction of heredity and environment? Or is what you
have become a product of both heredity and environment interacting and what you have
decided or determined yourself to become? (Self-determination or freedom is a third
factor). Write your reflections.

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